| Authorised form of name | Pitt-Rivers; Augustus Henry Lane Fox (1827 - 1900) |
| Other forms of name | Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt- |
| Augustus Henry Lane- |
| Augustus Henry |
| Other forms of surname | Rivers |
| Fox |
| Lane-Fox |
| Dates | 1827 - 1900 |
| Nationality | British |
| Date of birth | 14 April 1827 |
| Place of death | Rushmore, Wiltshire |
| Date of death | 04/05/1900 |
| Activity | Education:
Sandhurst
Career:
Commissioned in the Grenedier Guards (1845); Captain (1850); served in the Crimean War; Major (1857); Lieutenant Colonel (1867); Major General (1877); Lieutenant General (1882); founded the Hythe School of Musketry; his collection was housed by the government first at Bethnal Green, then South Kensington, finally given to Oxford University and placed in the Pitt-Rivers Museum (1883)
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 01/06/1876 |
| Relationships | Son of William Augustus Lane Fox of Hope Hall, Yorkshire, and his wife Lady Caroline, granddaughter of James Douglas, 14th Earl of Morton (FRS 1733); assumed the name of Pitt-Rivers when he inherited the estate of his great uncle, George Pitt 2nd Baron Rivers (1880); married (1853) Alice Margaret, daughter of 2nd Baron Stanley of Alderly; father-in-law of Sir John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury (FRS 1858) |
| Sources | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
References:
Quentin Bone, 'Excavator Extraordinary', review of Mark Bowden, Pitt Rivers: The Life and Archaeological Work of Lieutenant-General Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers, DCL, FRS, FSA in NR 1995 vol 49 pp 159-162, plate
Clive Gamble and Theodora Moutsiou 'The time revolution and he stratification of the primeval mnd' NR, 2011, Vol 65, pp43-64 |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/71454667 |
| Royal Society code | NA8014 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| NLB/9/298 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to General Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers, Fellow of the Royal Society | 26 April 1894 |
| NLB/18/5 | Copy letter from Theodore E James, to an unknown correspondent | 21 December 1898 |
| NLB/20/512 | Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 11 May 1900 |
| EC/1876/12 | Pitt-Rivers, Augustus Henry Lane Fox: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| IM/002618 | Lane-Fox, Augustus Henry (later Pitt-Rivers) | nd |
| MC/12/299 | Letter from A [Augustus] Pitt-Rivers, Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 4 St Martin's Gate, to the Chairman of the Relief Committee of the Royal Society | 20 January 1883 |
| MC/12 | Volume 12 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1880-1883 |